The Internet of Cultures

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The Internet of Cultures

• Artur Serra, Jesus Alcober
• artur.serra_at_i2cat.net
• Fundacio i2CAT
• Austin, September 28th,2004
• Internet2 Fall Meeting

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A Catalan public/private foundation for promoting
advanced Internet research and development in
order to achieved the leadership in the
Southern European and the Mediterranean
Information Society.
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The i2CAT approach

• 1. The new Internet2 can be the Internet for
  everyone, through the convergence of audio and
  video technologies into IP networks
• 2. The ISOC motto Internet is for everyone can
  become real.
• 3. The i2CAT is a research foundation for
  building a model of Internet for every person and
  every culture, a humane Internet.

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1. An Internet for every sapiens

• The current Internet is for literated, English
  readers, middle class people. Around 600 milions
  worldwide.
• Is it possible to build an Internet for 6.000
  milions and beyond? How?
• There are 5.000 human languages worldwide
• What is the minimum requirement to participate in
  the Information Society?
• Every sapiens can speak (almost everyone).
• The new Internet will be the Internet of
  languages, the Internet of voice and video.

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Three cultures, three phases of the Internet
technology

• 1st. 1970s-90s The Internet of computer
  technologists and innovative people, (
  email,ftp,telnet,...) (6 M people)
• 2nd.90s-2010s The Internet of scientists, the
  mathematical and literated people,( WWW,
  Grid,...). We are still here. (600 M people)
• 3rd.2010s-2030s The Internet of arts and
  cultures, The Internet of vocal and visual
  people, (VoIP, HD,videoconf,...) (6.000 M people)

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80 of current Internet trafic isalready
interchange of music and videos
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Open Forum (May-Sept 2004)
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What kinf of content?

• 1. Forum
• Artistic performances of all kind
• 4 Big Expositions Voices,Cities-Corners,Xian
  Warriors,Living in the Planet
• 2. Forum Dialogues
• 49 dialogues, 1.500 speakers, 11 topics (Cultural
  diversity and media,The Word,Science and
  Sustainable Development,Liberty, Security and
  Peace,Globalization and Development,
  Spirituality,Other Voices,Education and Culture
  in Development, The City, New Actors
• 3. Forum at the City
• Artistic festivals, concerts and performances.

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What we accomplished?The MEPG 2 Transport stream
multilingual service

• i2CAT has sent direct live streaming of Forum
  dialogues in MPEG2 to its partners of Internet2
• Forum provided to i2CAT an SDI flow of video with
  4 audio tracks, and we encoded to 10Mbps MPEG-2
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• i2CAT has taped 20 hours of Cultural Events in
  HDV format, using JVC GR-H1 camera
• i2CAT has recorded 5 hours of Cultural Events in
  HDSDI format for open use

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The inauguration day, April 3
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Korea-Canada-BCN Tricontinental HD270 over IP
transmission using UCLP,
Sept 7th-11th, 2004 Asia ITU Telecom
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HD transmission BCN-Korea at 19.2Mbps

• JVC GR-H1 camera allows a HD quality (720p)
  reducing the transmission to 19.2Mbps.(www.hdvin
  fo.net)
• Korean ANF sent to Barcelona Buddha on the Net
  production
• i2cat sent to Korea Le singe de so dyeu, of
  the Circ Baobab from Guinea,

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Finally, HD270 between BCN-CANARIE-Busan

• Two groups working simultaneously
• Networking engineers from KIST,Canarie and i2cat
  implementing UCLP software for managing a
  lightpath of 1Gbps
• Media engineers from ANF,RC and i2cat working in
  the HD system, based in RC software.

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What's next?
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How about a Global Multicultural Party?
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What for?

• A) Testing in a big scale the new Internet
  networks and applicationsB) Making popular the
  use of new networks

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What kind of services?

• Video services
• High quality video DVTS, MPEG2,HDSDI,
• H.323 Videoconferencing
• Multilingual services
• MPEG 2 transport stream (Forum Dialogues will
  produce 4 audio channels in four languages
  Catalan,Spanish, English and original)
• MAVS, Multilingual Search Engine (Prous)
• Exploring Grid Services
• Access Grid, for video distribution
• Storage Grid and Distributed Systems

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A real multilingual party

• For Catalan speaking worldhttp//www.malhatlantic
  a.pt/comenius/SpainHistory/history.htm
• For Spanish speaking world
• http//www.fccj.edu/library/1-span2.htm
• For English speaking world
• ...Aditional languages (French, Korean,Arab,...)
  as the partners increase.

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The universities of the Internet2- Research
Channel Global...can take the lead...
(Megaconference Map)
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Let me introduce the future member of the
multicultural Internet2 community...
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Gracies ?artur.serra_at_i2cat.net
jesus.alcober_at_i2cat.net